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At the end of the day it won't matter what the JRP recommends or what the Cons and Enbridge do to negate or subvert the process. Something was different about this pipeline proposal compared to others. T...

"Stability is an unworthy American mission and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not...

Within minutes of the site being shut down, and DOJ releasing its statement, Anonymous sprang into action and started taking down a ton of sites -- including websites for the DOJ, the US Copyright Office, ...

*"Comets"* by Chet Raymo "In the deep winter of 1744, Sophia, a fourteen-year-old minor German princess, was on her way to Russia. She had been summoned, with her mother, by the Empress Elizabeth, as a p...

WHILE DAVE, BORIS & REV regale us with an outrageous string of things to get outraged over, I ran across this small delight, worth 1:27 of your time. It's a video, as you see, with the title: *"Aston Marti...

First, via *thwap*, a link to another Rabble piece by *Tyler McCreary*. In it he describes the appalling start by which Enbridge and even JRP chair Sheila Leggett stepped in it. Second, *The Regina Mom*...

Fifteen hundred tank shells were stolen from an IDF munitions base in southern Israel. A senior officer in Southern Command said that the shells could reach terror organizations. Some of the shells may ha...

*And checking out just as quick*: "Brown’s big quarter boosts total to $12.8m" by Frank Phillips | Globe Staff, January 09, 2012 Senator Scott *Brown* raised $3.2 million in the last three months of th...

*How enjoyable was it yesterday to see so many bloggers and website owners going on strike yesterday over the misguided Stop Online Piracy Act. For one day, the internet shrugged at the projected imposit...

I needed to get a job as a library page in order to be "in the system" at the Mississauga Library. Job openings rarely, if ever, go external. Since after I earn my degree, I want to work as a librarian in ...

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. ...

*"The Chance Encounter and the Self-inflicted Wound"* by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. "A friend of mine (you know who you are) once told me that what he liked about my presentations was that I seemed to have a “...

By: Duane Craig The Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund site in Whittier, California, needs $70 million to cleanup the volatile organic compounds in the ground water, according to a recent report at 89.3...

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, Navy officials said, a likely prelude to testing Iran's recent warning against sending a U.S. carrier through the Strait of ...

*"A Letter from Mitt Romney: About My Finances"* by Andy Borowitz SOUTH CAROLINA (The Borowitz Report) – "Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has released the following letter to the American ...

*"Debunking the Myth of the Great Recession"* by Bill Bonner "There is a rumor- which we started ourselves- that Captain Francesco Schettino of the Costa Concordia has been invited to join the Federal Re...

*"Bloggers Beware"* by Julie Mitchell ․ "The SOPA bill is bad... and we can stop it. The internet is the greatest exchange of information we have. Don't let the government monitor it. Don't let them censor...

Members of the Senate are rushing for the exits in the wake of the Internet's unprecedented protest of the Protect IP Act (PIPA). At least 19 members of the upper chamber announced their opposition on We...

Scientists have created a genetically engineered microbe that turns the algae into low-carbon biofuel, but must make the technique commercially viable The ancient art of seaweed farming could provide a s...

What happened to the RCMP investigation into Bruce Carson that Harper himself ordered, presumably to get his own lard arse off the hook? Carson, you will recall, is the convicted fraud artist/disbarred ...

Jan 19, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed three new H5N1 avian influenza cases from Indonesia and Egypt, one of them fatal, a day after Vietnam's health ministry ann...

Arab League monitors will recommend extending their mission in Syria and believe they have succeeded in taking heavy weapons off the streets to protect civilians, Sky News has learned. The league is due...

The alert for the Turrialba Volcano is back following Wednesday's activity that included the expulsion of ash and a slight tremor. The activity was confirmed by the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológi...

Shimla, Jan 19 (PTI) Five persons were today killed and three injured when an avalanche hit Jungra panchayat of Tissa Sub division of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh. The area was covered under five...

Neishabour, Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Jan 19, IRNA – The earthquake on Thursday evening in the northeastern city of Neishabour in Khorasan-e Razavi Province left 58 people injured. Head of Neishabour Medi...

*Marc Lee at the Progressive Economics Forum* (and *Rabble*)has his Sherlock hat on sleuthing out the the math behind the employment numbers Enbridge is claiming for the Northern Gateway project. He explai...

After looking at how the supporter system was conceived yesterday, today I gaze ahead at what its future might hold. Specifically, the musings of some that the LPC could still hold staggered primaries, eve...

A car packed with explosives detonated at a gate to Nato forces' largest airfield in Afghanistan, killing seven civilians including two children. Witnesses said the suicide bomber appeared to target a con...

The Afghan government will investigate reports of civilian casualties in a recent NATO bombing, the office of President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. Karzai has appointed a delegation to investigate the bom...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 140 km (86.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:05:53 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) North of Gura, Romania No Report...

*"Bill Burton did what every normal person should do when confronted with the nonstop lunacy and the nonstop lies of your typical Republican. He threw it right back into Porky’s face."* *by Noah* *I. QU...

With her face grimacing in unbearable discomfort, this is the moment a trainee bodyguard has a bottle smashed over her head. Amazingly, the recruit has to stand there and take it if she wants to qualify ...

The number of knife-point robberies rose by 10 per cent in the year to September, new figures showed today. While 2010 saw 13,971 incidents, last year's figure was 15,313 - the equivalent to one offence ...

*THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012* *Dave Weigel’s feces and urine:* Is President Obama “the most successful food stamp president in American history,” as Speaker Gingrich announced last spring? Actually no, he...

Argentina's acting president labelled David Cameron 'ignorant' and suggested he go back to school today in an astonishing attack over the Falklands. Amado Boudou, who is standing in for Christina Kirchne...

Italians evaded an estimated 119.6billion euros (£100billion) in taxes in 2009, it was claimed today. The amount is nearly four times the value of the Prime Minister Mario Monti's new austerity budget, a...

The journal is at it again. The journal has been unable to describe the reality of the Fukushima situation, but instead has relied on the phrase "partial melt-down" to describe the full melt-throughs tha...

A lot of people have been predicting that Mitt Romney's Mormon mishaps could undermine his presidential aspirations. Perhaps they're right. "...*the Republican presidential front-runner, has been accused ...

[image: Kim Vinnell reports on the MV Rena disaster, 19 January 2012. ONE News / TVNZ] January 19 (ONE News) – For the first time salvage crews have removed containers from the front section of the stri...

RABAT, Morocco — Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs, especially for university graduates, a r...

Photo courtesy: theimpulsivebuy/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I have done several blogs on the evils of fast food. McDonald's has long been a favourite target of mine. From using eggs from battery hens (cruelty) to ser...

Photo courtesy: Depave/Video screen capture Oh boy, do I like this group! They have everything: environmental convictions, volunteers, principles, energy...and I could go on and on. Perhaps the thing I li...

A bat infected with white nose sydrome. Photo courtesy: USFWS Headquarters / CC BY 2.0 As many as 1 million bats, it was believed, had been killed by white nose syndrome — a mysterious fungus that attack...

Photo courtesy: The Nature Conservancy Never say never. Pandas eat bamboo shoots and leaves. And sometimes a little meat, scientists say. But a picture of a panda eating meat is rare. So check it out: A ...

Week Three of January already. I always feel a slight sense of relief when January is over. Something about this month always seemed difficult. I think it because I make like 50 resolutions ever year. Here...

The expected global drive to curb carbon emissions could create a fossil fuel bubble collapse. A coalition of prominent UK investors, politicians and scientists has warned the Bank of England that massiv...

[image: Professor Michael Mann, who became a chief target of the climate change denialists for being the outspoken author of an iconic graph of global warming science. AP]By Steve Connor 16 January 201...

*THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012* *Dogs and well-paid speeches:* Yesterday, we tuned in to Alex Wagner’s show on the One True Channel. It was our first time. At the moment we clicked the TV on, what was Wagner...

Newt Gingrich is going all out to snatch the Republican presidential nomination from the man nobody seemingly wants, Mitt Romney. And Newt figures the guy most Republicans are looking for, the man who'll...

YouTube - ResearchChannel (December 15, 2009): Larry Jacobs, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, leads a conversation with Walter Mondale, former Vice President of the United ...

A student at Gardner-Webb University collapsed in class and died on her 21st birthday after thanking God on Twitter for living another year. A spokesman says Ariane Noelle Patterson was in a religion class...

Images from Wikimedia Commons (top), NASA, via Science Meets Religion.Is Science a Religion?'Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with y...

How did we let this happen? We, the moussed, Reeboked beneficiaries of the Great Experiment with cell phones plastered to our ears as we drive high performance, less fuel-efficient cars, have somehow let...

*THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012* *Part 4—Milbank won’t tell you the truth:* Alas, poor Milbank! In Sunday’s column, he unburdened himself about his growing despair. Following Romney on the trail “is a painf...

Luis Ibáñez sent me links to an impressive high-energy physics conference that took place in Madrid's new theoretical physics building right before the Christmas: IFT Inaugural Conference & Xmas Worksho...

Boy, oh boy. The Thai 'terror' plot grows ever more curious..... Why, we even have a connection to Libya appearing. Libya! Of all places. You may recall Libya? It suffered horrific bombing and slaughter of...

PARIS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Airbus said on Thursday it had discovered more cracks in the wings of two A380 superjumbo aircraft but insisted the world's largest jetliner remained safe to fly. The announceme...

Johannesburg - Almost 150 people were plucked from the roofs of their submerged houses and others from trees where they'd been trapped after torrential rain in the Hoedspuit area in Limpopo, where up to 3...

An aging, three-story building in a popular neighborhood of central Havana collapsed Tuesday night, killing at least three and injuring several others, according to official reports. The tragedy occurred...

In 1973 the federal LeDain Commission called for the end of marijuana prohibition, and since then public opinion polls show a majority of Canadians of all ages and political stripes from right across th...

*With Tammy Baldwin going off to represent the whole state of Wisconsin in the Senate, her very Democratic Madison-based House district (62% for Kerry and 69% for Obama) is up for grabs. The two top conte...

On Thursday the Vietnamese authorities reported that a duck farmer has died of bird flu, coinciding with reports that a two-year-old boy in Cambodia has also died of the virus this week. The Vietnamese vi...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.6 km (12.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:09:49 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) So...

POLICE evacuated 4,300 people from the centre of Marseille as experts worked to remove an unexploded 250kg Second World War bomb. The American bomb was found by building workers on the site of the new M...

An independent report published by Middle Eastern human rights groups says there is evidence that war crimes and human rights violations were committed by all the participants – Nato, rebel forces and tho...

A small example of the largely vain public debates about "proper" science today is provided at wattsupwiththat.com, focusing upon one individual who rants about climate change, against the "deniers", in th...

BEIJING — A senior Chinese propaganda official has said real-name registration for the nation's hugely popular microblogs will be expanded, as authorities tighten their grip on the web amid fear of unrest...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:46:11 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 160 k...

MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warned Wednesday that outside encouragement of antigovernment uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa could lead to “a very big war that will ca...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. military's top officer headed to Israel on Thursday at a time of mounting international anxiety over Iran's nuclear intentions and the possibility that the Jewish state might take...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — More than two dozen people were killed in a series of four insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan that began late Wednesday and continued through Thursday afternoon, Afghan auth...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Northeastern Iran at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:52 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) South of Chenaran (Po...

STOCKTON, Utah (AP) -- The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile - a witches' brew of tox...

A corridor in an apartment building where high radiation levels thought to be from irradiated gravel used in concrete is seen in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 18. (Mainichi) NIHONMATSU, Fukus...

The green light that the nuclear power regulator has given to the reactivation of two reactors before the government issues a final report on the ongoing Fukushima crisis has sparked criticism from citize...

Syrian forces have pulled back from a rebel-held town under a local ceasefire, residents said on Thursday, but there was no sign of an overall easing of violence as a month-long mandate for Arab peace mon...

Iran's foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a "dangerous position" by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran's ...

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled last Wednesday on the so-called "ministerial exemption" to employment discrimination laws on Wednesday, finding that churches are allowed to discriminate. The exemption ...

*Adele has approved another milestone in her seemingly inevitable supremacy of the album charts. The British singer's success is made more remarkable because it bucks a downward trend. *In detail, Adele ...

Snow tapered off in parts of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday, a day after a storm made some normally busy streets in Seattle look more like ski runs. As the snowfall slowed Wednesday night, officials w...

A police commissioner in Nigeria has been suspended after the escape of a suspected terror group member, Nigerian police confirmed Wednesday. The suspect, an alleged member of Boko Haram, a militant Isla...

Chinese authorities sentenced a democracy activist to 10 years in prison for subversion, a relative said Thursday, the third dissident found guilty of similar charges in less than a month. A court in Wuh...

"Shame on you, shame on you," shouted protestors, as officials met to discuss plans to restart Japan's nuclear plants for the first time since last year's Fukushima disaster. About 20 demonstrators carry...

Rescuers resumed work aboard of the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia on Thursday, the Italian navy said, as a decision loomed about when and if to call off the search for survivors. Authorities...

[image: Link] An Australian swimmer is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a tiger shark in what is the country's second attack in two days and third this month. The 26-year-old man was snorkel...

*That's usually about all he gets (if that). * "Paul, in South Carolina, trumpets antiwar message WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. - GOP candidate Ron Paul has brought his *antiwar message* to South Carolina, a *state...

A faint 'satellite galaxy' - or dark dwarf - 10 billion light years from Earth is the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance. The galaxy is thought to consist of mysterious 'dark matter'. It...

The body parts of a missing teenage girl have been found scattered across a field, authorities confirmed. Investigators said the remains found in a field last October belonged to Sharon West, 14, who wen...

It's a practice more closely associated with third world countries, but in bleak times in a Chicago-area suburb, 30 people were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday. The pauper's burial section at Homewoo...

*In Switzerland the future of the world's time is being debated at a conference. The suggestion to remove leap seconds will be discussed on Thursday afternoon at the Radio communication Assembly meeting in...

The U.S. Navy's top commander in the Pacific has said disputes over oil rich waters in the South China Sea could blow up into serious military confrontations. Admiral Patrick Walsh said a diplomatic row ...

**BREAKING NEWS** *MARIANNE GINGRICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY* Disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) has a special kind of appreciation for marriage. Gingrich, for example, haggled over the t...

A 24-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murder and other crimes in a violent stabbing rampage in New York City last winter was sentenced today to 200 years in prison during a hearing in which he hurled ep...

The United States Navy has rescued a sinking Iranian fishing boat making it the U.S.'s third naval rescue this month for the country. A distress call by the dhow was spotted in the central Arabian Sea W...

A care worker at a hospice has been accused of faking cancer to get thousands of dollars from well-wishers. Donors gave Jennifer Risa Stover more than $30,000 after she told them she was battling uterine...

Howling winter weather hit the northwest of the country as four central states on reported tornadoes, the National Weather Service said. A cold front combined with a warm and humid air mass contributed to...

A renewed campaign to highlight hundreds of missing African-American women has been launched amid ongoing criticism that less attention is given to their cases by authorities and the media. According to...

*Eastman Kodak, the company that invented the hand-held camera, has filed for bankruptcy protection. According to the company it had already arranged a $950m (£615m) credit facility from Citigroup. In 20...

Mitt Romney, who recently revealed he pays close to 15 percent tax on his income, has untold millions of dollars of his massive fortune saved in offshore tax shelters in the Cayman Islands, according to r...

An Al-Qaeda magazine was smuggled into Guantanamo Bay and into the hands of a suspected terrorist. The discovery of material sparked an inspection of cells and a contentious new policy requiring special ...

*Hoping he will help set his campaign sailing in Florida.* "Romney plugs for-profit colleges, whose leaders bolster his run" January 15, 2012|By Eric Lichtblau, New York Times WASHINGTON - At a town-hall...

David Cameron branded President Bashar al-Assad a 'wretched tyrant' as he told Parliament that Britain should play a leading role in urging the international community to step up sanctions against Syria. ...

The White House has denied calling for direct talks with Iran in a 'secret letter' to the country's supreme leader. A conservative Iranian lawmaker had claimed that Barack Obama was trying to open back-c...

Two major insurance companies have been fined £2.17million for tampering with customer complaints files before passing them to the City watchdog. Churchill and Direct Line, owned by state-backed Royal Ba...

*Facebook started to add together a sequence of new applications to allow users share such things as fashion, photos or travel.* However this latest expansion expands the amount of apps considerably. It c...

Carl Whant (Left) with his Cousin and Nikitta's Boyfriend Ryan Mayes (Right) A young mother-to-be was raped in her own home and repeatedly stabbed - killing her and her unborn baby just two weeks before sh...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Northern Peru at a depth of 71.2 km (44.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:18:07 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 250 km (156 miles) WNW of...

Workers aged 50 and over are the biggest losers in the latest jobless figures. Every day between September and November around 1,300 Britons joined the growing army of those without work. The picture is...

Two thugs involved in an attack on an innocent man in the street which put him in hospital for a month were spared prison after telling a judge they were sorry for their actions. Quite how long that remo...

The BBC has been to fore in attacking the "evils" of bonus culture in the Private sector. Even this morning the topic loomed large on the Today programme. However there seems to be some double-speak in pla...

Czech president Václav Klaus has wrapped up his visit of Saudi Arabia. TRF brings you his observations published at klaus.cz, as translated by your humble correspondent. *Click to zoom in.* *Part I: Ja...

It was the day when Wikipedia went black and more than 100million people struggled to answer questions in classrooms and offices. The protest, joined by 7,000 sites, and supported by Google and Facebook'...

A man was last night charged with murder of a couple found dead in the their home, police said. The bodies of Avtar Kolar, 62, and his wife Carole, 58, were discovered at their house in Handsworth Wood, ...

At least 30,000 children in Mexico are involved in some sort of organized crime, according to a nationwide alliance of civic and social organizations. The Child Rights Network in Mexico says many of these...

Iran has criticized Saudi Arabia for saying it could increase its oil output if Western sanctions cut oil exports from Iran. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Tuesday in an interview with Iran’s Ara...

Petrol shortages and rumours of price hikes created havoc in the Egyptian capital for the third straight day Tuesday, as motorists rushed to fill up their tanks despite official assurances. The oil minis...

Rocks that fell from the sky and landed in Morocco last summer came from Mars, scientists have confirmed. The meteorite chunks, including one that weighed more than two pounds, rained down in North Afric...

Hong Kong is one of the world's richest cities. Almost one in 10 households boasts a millionaire. The government sits on a cash pile of about $80 billion. Yet Hong Kongers are choking, sometimes to death,...

Chinese textbooks give seriously distorted accounts of Korea's past, analysis of 126 Chinese history books finds. According to the analysis announced by Grand National Party lawmaker Park Young-ah on Wed...

One teenager a day commits a suicide in Korea on average, with 353 youngsters between 10 and 19 ending their own lives in 2010, according to the Statistics Korea. Until 2008, road accidents were the bigg...

Former North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son Jong-nam has said the isolated regime will eventually fail with or without reforms. The comment appears in e-mail conversations exchanged over seven yea...

Sources disclose exclusively that, contrary to recent reports published in Washington, Jerusalem - and this site too - it was Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who de...

The Thai police's capture of a Lebanese-Swedish Hizballah suspect, who was charged Monday, Jan. 16, thwarted a terrorist attack on Bet Habad in Bangkok, involving the taking of hostages and blowing up the...

US President Barack Obama is busy aligning Middle East allies with the next US steps on Iran. Contributing to the mounting sense in Washington of an approaching US-Iranian confrontation, the Pentagon is...

According to debkafile's Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing an underground test of a one-kiloton nuclear device during 2012, much like the test carried out by North Korea in 2006. Underground faciliti...

US, Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend on guard for fresh developments at the two Middle East flashpoints. The Russian carrier Admi...

The United States and Iran are playing an increasingly dangerous game of chicken in the Gulf. War could be only a ship collision or aircraft intrusion away. Nations often blunder into war due to miscalcu...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:01:23 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 140 km...

Website for this image There is an al-Qaeda plot to wreck all Arab countries, and split them up, just like Palestine. *Ayman Zawahiri, the new boss of al Qaeda, has sent out a message. He says there is a...

2012 is sure to be filled with too many end-of-the-world jokes, and probably a fair amount of genuine fear as well. But assuming the Mayans were wrong and doomsday isn't on Dec. 21 this year, you may be ...

Pakistan is facing its most serious political crisis in years, with rapidly escalating conflicts between the civilian government, the military and the judiciary, against the backdrop of a faltering econom...

It was one of the biggest stories of the year: The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, and is now blamed for the deaths of more than 15,000 people. Now, you can see the devastation as never before...

As this third week in January starts, we're learning three things about the U.S. military aircraft carrier program: – The Pentagon may be looking at reducing the number of carriers in the U.S. fleet from...

2012 is shaping up to be a very tough year for the global economy. All over the world there are signs that economic activity is significantly slowing down. Many of these signs are detailed later on in this...

Police have detained Vice President of the Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) Dr. Mohamed Jameel Ahmed for the second time in three days as soon as he arrived at the police station after he was summoned at 8.30 t...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 07:29:27 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 421 km (261 ...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 43.4 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 07:10:21 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) West of Illapel,...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 18.1 km (11.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:48 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 150 ...

It has taken a long time, but itappears we are successfully generating a high quality three dimensional map ofthe Earth’s surface. Integrating thatimage with other types of satellite data will be extr...

What we are saying here is quitesimple. Life’s software is *self aware*and naturally *evolves* to take advantage of opportunities. This neatly excuses us from the failing taskof producing a mechanist...

What this all means, and it isvery well detailed, is that only one dollar out of five actually goes to movingthe car. Considering that the car alsoweighs around ten times the weight of the load, one c...

It appears our knowledge ofsuperconductance is reaching the point of been almost able to engineer them. This article has a good explanation of theoryand is worth the effort to understand it. I would r...

A 1992 tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s second house for Herbert and Katherine Jacobs—built in 1944—a house he called his “Solar Hemicycle”—with expert guidance by Katherine Jacobs herself. Content is copyr...

*“The Black Man (A True Story)”* by Paulo Coelho "We are at the restaurant of a German University. A red haired student, and undeniably German, takes her tray and sits down at her table. She then realize...

For society to work, we need to believe that it is reasonably fair — not absolutely fair, because nothing is, but broadly decent in apportioning rewards and penalties. Nothing does more to breed anger an...

David Cameron accused Argentina of ‘colonialism’ for threatening the Falkland Islands yesterday after being warned the regime in Buenos Aires is plotting a mock ‘fishermen’s invasion’. He dramatically ra...

Kids have unbridled imaginations and a healthy dose of optimism about what the future might hold. When they were asked about how robots might help them learn and work better, they had some potentially pre...

That’s what you thought Kiva did already? Not quite. But the new Kiva Zip lets you lend directly to a real person, with a higher chance it won’t get paid back. It’s a vast experiment in online trust and i...

*Where Is Our Tax Money? -by Carol Shea-Porter* A debate has been raging about the proper role of government and the proper government use of our taxes. The recession that began in early 2007 under the ...

The SUN-TV news network was never intended to cover the news, it was intended to make the news. Some might even say make up the news, but what I mean is that the gang of clown-shoed commentators put togeth...

Big banks might say that they give back, but while the dollar amounts are high, their donations amount to a rounding error on their books. New bank AbleBanking plans to be the bank for people who care abo...

Smartphones are the epitome of planned obsolescence. If you don’t upgrade your phone every two years, you’re likely to be left out in the cold as software outpaces its capabilities. But all you really nee...

America is thinking too small when it comes to energy efficiency … according to a major new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The new report outlines three scenari...

RIVERS and mountains can move given enough time, but they don't normally move half a kilometre every year. Yet that is exactly what is happening to a bizarre group of Antarctic lakes. And the lakes seem t...

*Mark Pagel, professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Reading **In his thoughtful *Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation*, Richard Sennett argues there are ways to ove...

Making a reality show isn't as simple as pointing a camera at a person and hoping he or she is horrible. There are a lot of tricks and manipulations that producers use to make douchebags and handbag design...

Today’s soldiers are invisible. They can’t be harmed by bullets or chemical weapons. They can see through walls and distinguish enemy from civilian with a simple glance. At least, that was the vision out...

1. In August 2010, journalist Wayne Madsen uncovered Obama's deep roots in the CIA, writing: "The nexus of Obama's almae matres: Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard, as well as that of his parents, the Univ...

Police have discovered two hands and feet close to where a pair of dog walkers discovered a severed head on a trail leading up to the iconic Hollywood sign. The first hand was found after police sealed o...

Overcrowding in Britain's prisons is reaching crisis point and could lead to widespread riots - with staff struggling to regain control. The warning has come from the Prison Officers Association (POA) whi...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 2.1 km (1.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:57:59 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) ESE from the Gey...

University of Texas Government Professor David Edwards in the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, January 13, 2012. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog.UT-Austin Government Prof David Edwardsdiscusses transfor...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu. Japan at a depth of 37.5 km (23.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:32:50 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) ...

It took two teenage suicide cases due to school bullying last year in South Korea for people to notice something was very wrong. The students lived in different cities and went to different schools, but b...

“The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corn...

Poor little car. I was driving home from court today, talking to my Mom on the phone, and suddenly, my car (the Saab) started not accelerating. weird. Hung up with my Mom and pulled almost to the side of ...

*“Listening”* by Chet Raymo “There are days here when the sea is as calm and flat as bottle glass, an apparently infinite expanse of turquoise stretching to the place where sea meets sky, where sky-gods ...

*"Internet Blackout: The Time Has Come"* by Jeffrey Tucker "Wikipedia, that ever-evolving monument to human collaboration in the cause of global enlightenment, goes completely black today, Wednesday, Jan....

A Mormon friend of mine here in L.A. told me that Buck McKeon was so freaked out about being exposed for taking gargantuan bribes from Countrywide-- hundreds of thousands of dollars-- but not because he's...

*That is what the corporate media want you to believe.* "Occupy group tries to draw attention from primary MANCHESTER, N.H. - A small circle formed in Veterans Park yesterday as members of Occupy N.H. Pri...

James Gandolfini in the British film, In the Loop.From 2003 to 2010:Looking back at my favorite filmsBy Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / January 18, 2012[Last week we posted Alan Waldman's 10 Favorite Films of ...

by Tony Cartalucci January 18, 2012 - The entire reason why SOPA's authors and supporters have the money, influence, and power to put draconian bills like it forward in the first place is because of our d...

*The Boston Globe sure has made it memorable.* "Couple found love at Occupy Boston" January 16, 2012|By Martine Powers November 15 was a busy day at Occupy Boston. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was speaki...

Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan" (Excerpt) Commentary by Kevin de Bruxelles "Kevin de Bruxelles argues that the government has broken the social contract with the American people, and discusses the ultimate mea...

*The Rev. took the juiciest parts *of Harper's latest "sit down" with Peter Mansbridge and spread them out *here*. It's so good that it's difficult to pick out which part of *"Iran really scares me"* is th...

*The Washington Post had a fine op-ed this weekend by law professor Jonathan Turley asking the provocative question, Is the U.S. still the “land of the free?” He gave 10 compelling reasons that it is not...

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Yep, what you do as 'politicians' when getting afraid of your own 'work'... and what that brings when you 'take care of your citizens'... We already know too well! Isn't it a sad story, or rather a Bad D...

*"Embattled Washington: From SOPA to the Debt Ceiling"* by Addison Wiggin "It’s hard to crawl the Internet today without running across something like this… *Wikipedia Blackout Notice*: Wikipedia and sev...

As I mentioned in this post a few weeks ago, I've decided to shift the focus of my Wednesday posts to cover all of the good and important things in life, both on and off the web. Inspired by by Wake Up We...

If Rob Ford and Stephen Harper are both unhappy, this *must* be a good day! Yesterday the voices of reason on the Toronto City Council united to defeat Rob Ford's most dangerous budget cuts. There will sti...

*"Plan B – * *How To Loot Nations And Their Banks Legally"* By Golem XIV "Is there a plan B? That question is usually asked of governments regarding their attempts to ‘save’ the banks domiciled in their...

UPDATE: Deazen has made significant corrections to the article. It still implies, I think, more than is warranted, but the egregious misrepresentations in his article are gone. SECOND UPDATE: In case anyb...

What is SOPA? Here are five things you need to knowWikipedia was among several websites to shut down Wednesday in protest of anti-piracy bills now in Congress that critics say could amount to censorship.Inst...

[image: Aerial of an Amazon geoglyph. Geoglyphs, geometric designs carved into the earth, have become increasingly visible with the deforestation of the Amazon. Douglas Engle for The New York Times]By SI...

[image: Drought stricken trees are visible in a residential area in Austin, Texas. The full effect of Texas' record-breaking drought and scorching hot summer on the state's trees will be revealed next sp...

After more than six months of silence, Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, spoke last week for only the fourth time since the beginning of the country's widespread uprising in March. His words show that he is...

By Suzanne MacNevin - January 2012. FEMINISM/SEX - In the world of feminism there is nothing more controversial than sex workers (aka escorts, prostitutes, hookers, whores, hoes, whatever word you choose ...

Russia has warned that a military attack on Iran risks triggering a "chain reaction" that would destabilises the whole world. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow was "seriously worried" about the ...

So the Union-led petition to force a recall election against Republican Gov. Scott Walker has gathered 1 million signatures. That's nearly twice what's required to force the recall. Of course, that's only ...

SIMPSON COUNTY, Ky. – The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in Simpson County, Kentucky on Thursday afternoon. A home on McKendree Church Road, just off of Highway 100, w...

For the past two weeks, people in the remote Kumadzong village of Gongdue gewog in Mongar have been eating beef every day. On January 13, the villagers reported to the gewog livestock extension office in...

Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted Tran Phu...

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